Mark Curran is a retired professor from Arizona State University where he worked from 1968 to 2011. He taught Spanish and Portuguese and their respective cultures. His research specialty was Brazil and its "e;popular literature in verse"e; or the "e;Literatura de Cordel,"e; and he has published many articles in research reviews and now some fourteen books related to the "e;Cordel"e; in Brazil, the United States and Spain. Other books done during retirement are of either an autobiographic nature - "e;The Farm"e; or "e;Coming of Age with the Jesuits"e; - or reflect classes taught at ASU on Luso-Brazilian Civilization, Latin American Civilization or Spanish Civilization. The latter are in the series "e;Stories I Told My Students:"e; books on Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, Portugal and Spain. "e;Letters from Brazil I, II, III, IV and V"e; is an experiment combining reporting and fiction. "e;A Professor Takes to the Sea I and II"e; is a chronicle of a retirement adventure with Lindblad Expeditions - National Geographic Explorer. "e;Rural Odyssey - Living Can Be Dangerous"e; is "e;The Farm"e; largely made fiction. "e;A Rural Odyssey II - Abilene - Digging Deeper"e; and "e;Rural Odyssey III Dreams Fulfilled and Back to Abilene"e; are a continuation of "e;Rural Odyssey."e; "e;Around Brazil on the 'International Traveler' - A Fictional Panegyric"e; tells of an expedition in better and happier times in Brazil, but now in fiction. The author presents a continued expedition in fiction "e;Pre - Columbian Mexico - Plans, Pitfalls and Perils."e; Yet another is "e;Portugal and Spain on the 'International Adventurer.'"e; "e;The Collection"e; is a bibliography of primary and secondary works on the "e;Literatura de Cordel"e; in Curran's collection. 180 "e;The Master of the "e;Literatura de Cordel"e; - Leandro Gomes de Barros. A Bilingual Anthology of Selected Works"e; is a return to the topic of the Dissertation in 1968. "e;Adventure Travel"e; in Guatemala - The Maya Heritage"e; is a return to the A.T. series, the 4th preceded by books on Brazil, Mexico, Portugal and Spain. "e;Two By Mark J. Curran"e; combines two shorter narratives on the author's life, "e;ASU Days"e; and "e;The Guitars - A Music Odyssey."e; "e;Rural Odyssey IV - Parallels. Abilene, Cowboys and "e;Cordel"e; is cultural, historic fiction in the Rural Odyssey Series. "e;The Writing and Publishing Journey"e; is a capstone volume and catalogue of all of Curran's books to the present with color images of all the covers and short summaries of the genesis of the books. "e;Adventure Travel"e; in Colombia - Moments of Mayhem continues the Adventure Travel Series. And now, "e;Adventure Travel"e; - A New Partnership - The Royal Princess. "e;Rural Odyssey V"e; Trouble in a Kansas Riverside Town With "e;The Ballad of the Smoky Hill River Rambler"e; is the newest in the series. And in 2024 "e;Brazil's 'Literatura de Cordel' - The Broadside Engravings of Mexico's Jose Guadalupe Posada"e; KDP Publishing.
